Strategic Commissioning

Strategic Commissioning is a national museum and archive education programme funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The programme aims to build the capacity of museums and archives to work with schools, to increase demand for services and to encourage partnerships that enable all children and young people to participate in museum/archive learning.

The programme has three key strands:

For further information about Strategic Commissioning in the East Midlands please contact Liz Towner.

Initial Teacher Education projects

Working with Initial Teacher Education (ITE) providers has been part of the MLA East Midlands Strategic Commissioning programme over the past few years. This element aims to encourage and facilitate the ITE providers and the trainee teachers to use museum and archive resources during training. These projects, with the University of Derby, University of Leicester and University of Nottingham have been largely successful and have resulted in sustained partnerships between universities and museums and archives.

Find out more in the report below:

Initial Teacher Education report 2007/08 (119 kb) [doc]

 
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